For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to “remap” keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there’s XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there’s Espanso, but it doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts yet.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Every time I build a new box or do an upgrade, I try selecting Plasma on Wayland from the login screen. Every time it doesn’t work, I select X11, and never think of it again for another six months to two years.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Must have been a long time since you built a box.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Two years, then the drive exploded a couple weeks ago and I rebuilt it just now. Doesn’t work out of the box, X11, does, so I’ve never looked into it.

    • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
      11·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, I think my sway config is around five years old now. The Wayland experience hasn’t been entirely without warts, but as someone who kind of just uses the desktop to drive a browser and a bunch of terminals, there’s not a whole lot of problems to run into either.

  • fxdave@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 days ago

    urxvt, bspwm, sxhkd, and many small utilities that I built my desktop with. It’s hard to reproduce the same setup.

  • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I just need steam\proton\wine to support native wayland and then I’ll remove xwayland from my system, can’t wait

    i’m on hyprland though

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 days ago

    Couldn’t use xset to manually set some monitors to standby So I searched how to change it back to X.

    Also you couldn’t set display variable to another computer’s ip address (a windows one running xming)

  • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
    71·
    5 days ago

    RustDesk (remote desktop control) and Barriers (KVM-like server to control my laptop screen from my desktop just by moving mouse to that screen). Both of these are tightly integrated in my daily workflow and would be a hard loss.

    There’s a modern fork of Barriers but I haven’t been able to get it working cross-platform yet. I know RustDesk is actively working to complete wayland support, but it’s not quite there yet.

    • 1smoothcriminal@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I use rustdesk with wayland, works for me for everything i need it to. As for barriers, i believe input-leap works with wayland.

      • DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml
        11·
        4 days ago

        RustDesk on Wayland can’t run headless, which I need (unless they fixed already and I just haven’t noticed yet - I know they’ve been working on it!)

        Yeah, Input-leap is the Barriers fork I was referring to. I need it to work on all platforms though, and I wasn’t able to get it working on macOS. I keep checking periodically tho (usually in response to posts like these - I wanna move Wayland like everyone else!)

        • 1smoothcriminal@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          I see, yea still can’t do headless in rust desk. You’re right about that.

          As for input-leap, yea, not too sure about mac, i’m a linux only guy at this point in time.

    • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      I think Rustdesk for me as well. My main computer is a Windows laptop, but I use a few Linux laptops around the house to control it and others with Rustdesk. Alt+Tab works on the remote system in Gnome Classic (I think that’s what it’s called - says X11) but on the other options it performs switches locally only. Tested on Debian and Fedora.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    82·
    5 days ago

    The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

  • Magnus Åhall@lemmy.ahall.se
    41·
    4 days ago

    For me is the lack of virtual displays is Wayland.

    I’m using a 49" monitor (with i3) and split it into virtual monitors/displays. For some tasks two displays are good, for others three, and all doesn’t need to be the same size.

    The reason for not using i3 splits is that many programs have fullscreen functions that I often use.

    Watching a movie is one example, where I have a script that automatically calculate the optimal width without borders and gives me an extra virtual display beside with whatever’s left.

    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      41·
      4 days ago

      Hyprland can tell a window to be in fullscreen when in fact, it’s not (it’s called… Fakefullscreen). I binded it to shift+f11 and its become part of my workflow, lol

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
          3·
          4 days ago

          Hey, I’m in the same boat. Gigabyte GTX 670. Wayland was a sluggish mess, and same goes for nouveau with X11.

          I bit the bullet after eight months of running Arch like this, and experimenting around with newer iGPUs in laptops, and bought a new radeon finally. Time to retire this ancient piece of tech.

          • gradual@lemmings.world
            3·
            4 days ago

            670 is still better than nothing.

            Hopefully it can find its way to someone else’s home on the cheap and still give them plenty of years of fun.

        • muhyb@programming.dev
          2·
          4 days ago

          Well, you can hold onto that GPU for a little longer with X11. But it seems you’ll need an upgrade some time later. Though if you don’t game (aside from FOSS ones), Nouveau driver should do the job for your daily needs. However, it still needs time for Wayland.

            • muhyb@programming.dev
              1·
              4 days ago

              Even on X11? I tried it on Wayland months ago to see its state and it was generally fine except gaming. Though the results still might depend on the card in use I guess.

              • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
                1·
                4 days ago

                Even on X11?

                yup. i think it had something to do with video calls or screen sharing, which are essential at work

                • muhyb@programming.dev
                  1·
                  4 days ago

                  That makes sense. Nouveau isn’t mature for some use cases yet, even though they made a huge jump with NVK. Hardware upgrade might be closer than you think then.

  • gradual@lemmings.world
    1·
    4 days ago

    I’m using Wayland right now, but tentatively.

    Right now there’s an issue in WoW where sometimes when I move my mouse and left-click, the camera jumps to a different position, usually trying to look up.

    Only happens on Wayland and it’s fixed temporarily by switching between windowed and fullscreen mode. The problem comes back sometimes when alt-tabbing and refocusing the game.

    There was a bug in KDE recently where some menus weren’t properly appearing on Wayland, but that seems to have been fixed after my latest update.